Show us your Gravel Bikes / committee meeting

[M_Chavez]

What about frame materials? I say carbon or Ti.
Steel is for old farts who can't shut up about the benefits of square brackets and cup & cone bearings.
And aluminium should have never been used in bike frames to begin with .

 

[reindeer]

Earliest ref i found for GravelBike was salsa 2013/14?, and even that was a little ephemeral.
Can we find an earlier one?

The State Of The Gravel Scene Series

A Guitar Ted Productions Series In January 2018 I posted a five part series on what I thought was the "State Of The Gravel Grinding Scen...

g-tedproductions.blogspot.com

I think this was one of the first blogs I read about it, and it started as "gravel grinding".

 

[bikeworkshop]

Bike Rumour August 2013:

One Ride Review: 2014 Salsa Warbird Alloy Gravel Road Race Bike

There’s simply no denying that Salsa’s got some damn fine looking bikes in their 2014 range. The kind of bikes that make you wanna get…

bikerumor.com

 

[R-V]

Gravel bike / Not gravel bike

 

[bikeworkshop]

Just one Tanwall tyre,
throw the cat amongst the pigeons

 

[Takingabreak]

Gravel bike / Not gravel bike
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I don't really see much difference in the use they were designed for.

 

[R-V]

Just one Tanwall tyre,
throw the cat amongst the pigeons

not my fault

 

[novocaine]

The German price won't include vat, and its probably the same retail in Germany as trade price to the UK retaler tbh

So sell at 140 = £24 vat, trade 80, margin £36 sounds about right.

It costs us £2 a minute to have the shop door open

well shut then you numpty, all that heat going straight out the door.

 

[Russell]

Mine.

On one Pickenflick, flared bars, Hope 27.5 wheelset with 2.25” Nobby Nics, 1x drivetrain.

Gravel? Monstercross? CX bike with the wrong wheels? Don’t care x x

 

[Twozaskars]

I think you've just sold me the idea of owning one of these contraptions.